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C. A. SQUIER.

TAG.

No. 323,461. Patented Aug. 4, 1885.

Unrrn STATES A'rnNr rriea CHARLES A. SQUIER, OF BA-TTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN.

TAG.

August 4:, 1885.

Application filed February 2, 1885. (No model.)

To all wwm it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. SQUIER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Battle Creek, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tags; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to tags for merchandise, packages, and the like, and its object is to provide a tag of great comparative strength and durability at a minimum of cost; and to this end it consists in the, combination, with the card proper of a tag, of a cross-piece or head, a double lap which embraces and covers the cross-piece, cemented or glued to the opposte fat'es of the card, and a wire or eord 10x' securing the tag to the package.

I n the drawings, Figure 1 shows in Section a blank foi` a tag with the cross-piece or Wire pressed into its face near one end and a perforatiou through which the fasteniug part passes. Fig. 2 is a longitndinal section through the center of the card, showing the card, crosspiece, double lap, and attaching-wire. Fig. 3 is a view showing a modificat-ion in the crosshead, and Fig. at a view of the whole thing when finished.

o is a piece of card-paper, and b is the crosspiece or head, which is embedded by great pressure into the face of the paper and glued. J

in position. c is a double lap,which embraces the cross-piece and the end of the card-paper, and is glued or cemented to the paper, the whole presscd together so as to make a neat and strong attaehment. rilhe card and double lap is pcrforated near the cross-piece for the introduction of a fastcning Wire or eord, (Z, for connecting the tag to'a package.

According to niy invention, the double lap may be of a material Superior to the body of the card, whereby a card of a given strength is produced at less cost than would otherwise be the case. Moreover, the thickness of the card of the tag relieves, in a measure, the double lap from the strain that would arise from pressing a single fiap around the Wire or cross-piece at the time it is pasted to the card.

I am aware that tags have been made having a cross-piece provided with a coating for uniting the same with the paper, and having one end of the card turned over to embrace the same.

I am also aware that a double lap or re-enforcenient has been applied upon opposite sides of the tag. In such case or cases, however, it was applied merely as a re-enforce, and not a clasp or Strap for securing a transoni- 'wire to the tag. Therefore I do not elaim, broadly, the combination of a transom-wire with a tag, nor the combination of a double lap or reinforce with the tag; but,

What I do claim,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the card-paper of a tag, of a cross-piece, a double lap-piece, and a Wire or cord for connecting lthe tag with a package, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afix my signature ;'i'n presence of two witnesscs.

CHARLES A. souinn.

Vvlitnesses:

S'rnvnzv S. HUL'nnn'r,

G. MAoARD. 

